Tag Archives: contemporary art

Art Radar links to a video interview by ARTINFO with contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing, known for his unique approach to Chinese characters, calligraphy and printmaking.

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“Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab” represents the first time since its inauguration in 2010 that the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art ”has turned eastward to consider dynamics across Asia”.

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Chinese art company Affordable Art China Ltd (AAC) will launch an art fair in Hong Kong in 2013. The event will focus on emerging artists and sell contemporary art works at “accessible prices”.

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Mongolian artist Munkhtsetseg Jalkhaajav, also known as Mugi, recently concluded her first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Her works commonly depict women and deal with the re-emergence of Mongolian heritage.

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Eleven Asian artists have been included in the inaugural edition of La Triennale, which was launched at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on 20 April 2012.

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In April 2011, Voice of America reported local curator Erin Gleeson as stating that nearly 80 percent of Cambodian artists are currently making work in response to urbanisation.

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Pearl Lam will be the next high-end commercial gallery to move into the historic Pedder Building. The new 340 square metre gallery space will open to the public on 16 May 2012.

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A survey of Singaporean contemporary art, titled “The Singapore Show: Future Proof”, closed at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) on 15 April 2012.

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Lachlan Petras was awarded the AUD35,000 Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize at the 2012 “Hatched” National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art.

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David Ben Kay’s Yuanfen Flow started out as a house, became a new media art gallery and is now a creative business incubator. Read on to find out more about this unique Beijing space.

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Shortlisted work by Yeondoo Jung, a leading Korean contemporary photographer, is part of a travelling exhibition for “Growth 2011″, the third theme for the Prix Pictet.

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Hong Kong-based gallery Input/Output (I/O) featured Taiwanese new media artists Yao Chung-Han, Lin Guan-Ming, and Chang Li-Ren in their show “Made in Taiwan”, which closed April 2012.

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We warmly invite our Hong Kong readers, students and friends to join executive editor and founder Kate Cary Evans at an Art Radar get-together in April 2012.

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In an interview with Asia Art Archive (AAA) published in a recent newsletter, Chinese artist Fang Lu explains how she uses food as an artistic medium in her performance art.

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“Coastline”, the award-winning photography series by Chinese emerging artist Zhang Xiao, examines the rapid changes occurring in the coastal cities of China.

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Archival Methods News has published a few top tips to help collectors, gallerists and artists hone in on that perfect solution within the range of options available.

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Private and corporate collectors are playing a key role in the development of the Turkish art market. Are they replacing the traditional roles of wealthy patrons?

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VIP Art Fair returns in 2012 for its second installment. Although many galleries failed to sell works, participants applauded the tweaks to the website interface and the fair’s publicity potential.

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The decision to bring contemporary Arab art to Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum also brought with it a number of curatorial challenges, among them, how to define the “Arab world”.

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The past decade has seen galleries expand, both in their reach and roles. Just how are they responding to the challenges of a globalised world? We explore in the second post in our 2012 and beyond art trend series.

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The Miami Herald questioned six art professionals on their views on global art trends. We summarise the main points from the article and supplement them with thoughts of our own.

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Yang Fudong sheds some light on his unique aesthetic through on explanation of the video works now on show at Spring Workshop and Osage in Hong Kong.

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Asia Art Archive introduces four new artist-run spaces that opened in late 2010 and 2011 in Manila. Art Radar takes a look and adds one of our own.

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In his November 2011 BorneoPost online article, writer Ghaz Ghazali explores Taipei and thrusts the city’s public art into the limelight.

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Art Radar reviews the successes and the pitfalls of selling art online while also looking at how the first India Art Collective online art fair compares to VIP Art Fair.

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